GALLERIES
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ART PHOTOGRAPHY
I consider my way of seeing things to have been originated at the end of the 1960s, beginning of the 1970s. In those years I wandered throughout the country with my friends, often also by myself and later as a musician. It was maybe the impressions gathered during those years that helped the formation of my visual world. I think I have always been a contemplative type. Living near the City Park (Városliget) I watched passers-by and lonely people sitting on the benches at dawn or dusk. Of what I had not been aware at that time, my photos already revealed, namely, that deeper connections hide beyond the snapped moment, that things more often than not are not what they seem and the moment caught in the picture is but a code for the viewer.
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Tricks and Tracks
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Tricks & Tracks: Pál Frenák was born in Budapest, in 1957, and settled down in Paris in 1983. He established his own Dance Company in 1989, and made his first choreography in France the same year, titled “Ter”. In the following years, mainly staging improvisational pieces, he worked with György Kurtág, Patrick Schneider and several other contemporary composers. His first real hit was the Les Palets / Skate-boards; this show, just as all his other works, could be seen by the Hungarian audience as well, as part of the Budapest Autumn Festivals, or as individual performances.
Since 1998 Frenák has been working more and more in Hungary, the majority of dancers of his Company are Hungarian. The premiere of his last three shows (Out of the Cage, Tricks & Tracks and his latest, the Festen/Feast ) were held in Budapest, in the House of Contemporary Arts, the “Trafó”.
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The Miraculous Mandarin
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“Three apaches at their den force a young girl to stand by the window and attract passing men into the room, men who will later be brutally robbed by them. There are three seduction scenes. The first man to be lured up is a penniless old man. The second is none better. However, the third man is a rich Chinese. The catch is good, the girl tries to dilute him with her dance and the Mandarin’s zest for the girl is aroused, he falls passionately in love with the prostitute. The apaches grab and rob him, stab him with a sword, smother and strangle him, but without avail: the Mandarin in love remains fixated on the girl. To save the situation, by a womanly instinct, the prostitute agrees to fulfill the Mandarin’s desire: The Mandarin and the prostitute embrace passionately and with his longing fulfilled, he dies in an ecstasy of love.” |
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Splinters
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Tamás Juranics: Splinters
Stage-design and costumes: Zsuzsa Molnár
Splinters, bits and pieces and fragments. Fragments of destinies, loves and lives that so often determine the whole, at times our whole life. A night, when the unreal plays a real role, thus enhances the chance for accidental occurrences. I do not wish to speculate on the big questions of life, nor to draw a lesson at the end of the show; my intention is to simply highlight the bits and pieces of human destinies, true and false loves, desires, every-day Mandarins, disappointments, broken hearts – splinters. Tamás Juranics.
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